Dan Funk
Founder And CEO at SpiffWorks
Staunton, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Funk is a founder and CEO with 14–18 years of engineering leadership experience building and scaling software companies and community organizations from the ground up. He blends hands-on backend development (notably contributions to the Python-based SpiffWorkflow BPMN engine and JSON/DMN support) with strategic product and operational leadership, driving sustained revenue growth and cross-functional delivery. Dan has a track record of aligning technical initiatives to business goals—delivering critical research applications for universities and restoring medical research workflows during the pandemic. He is adept at surfacing organizational and technical patterns through visualizations and clear written communication to build consensus across competing interests. Beyond commercial work, he grows technical communities—founding a makerspace that expanded to 120 members and coordinated production of thousands of medical face shields. His mix of open-source contribution, systems-level thinking, and community impact makes him a practical innovator who mentors teams while shipping resilient, auditable solutions.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Transfer Degree, computer science, Transfer Degree, computer science at Blue Ridge Community College (Virginia)BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at James Madison University
Github Skills (9)
bpmn10
python10
serialization9
serializer9
serializable9
json9
deserialization9
camunda8
dmn8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
TeachmanLab/MT-Angular
Jun 2018 - Jan 2022
Repo for parts of MindTrails study sites coded in the Angular framework, such as the training sessions (CBM-I and psychoeducation) and Recognition Ratings task
Contributions:217 commits, 55 PRs, 131 pushes in 3 years 8 months
partsrecognitiontrainingsitespsychoeducation
stauntonmakerspace/stauntonmakerspace.github.io
Oct 2014 - Mar 2022
We are a MakerSpace located in Staunton, Virginia.
Contributions:32 commits, 6 PRs, 36 pushes in 7 years 6 months
virginiamakerspace
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